Ryota Murata defends his minor middleweight title against Italy's Emanuele Blandamura in a stay busy bout for the fans in Japan.
As long as Murata can keep winning, he'll eventually receive a shot at Gennady Golovkin (as Danny Jacobs did as a minor titlist although these titles shouldn't exist as I've stated a billion times before) and Blandamura shouldn't lend much of a roadblock as he has been knocked out (by Billy Joe Saunders and Michel Soro) against the only two opponents of world class quality.
I was prepping a story on "the best fighter you've never seen" on Japan's WBC flyweight champion Daigo Higa for after his title defense against Cristopher Rosales on this card.
I did an article like this on Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez before he became an HBO staple and I had a feeling that Higa might follow that same path to American television stardom.
That road might have been slowed a bit for Higa after he surrendered his flyweight title on the scales before his title defense today against Rosales.
I don't think that it will hurt his skills any, but anything that makes promoters/networks concerned about fighters not being reliable is never a helpful hint when a fighter is trying to develop into a star.
It's sad because I really like Higa and he should have been more professional, but this could be an eventual good thing if it means that Higa leaps into the loaded 115 pound division, but I wish Higa had moved up after a successful title defense.
Rosales can win the title with a victory while the title will be vacant with a Higa win...
In the boxing challenge, I lead Ramon Malpica 59-46
Middleweights. 12 Rds
Ryota Murata vs Emanuele Blandamura
R.L: Murata KO 5
TRS: Murata KO 9
Flyweights. 12 Rds
Daigo Higa vs Cristopher Rosales
R.L: Higa Unanimous Decision
TRS: Higa KO 6
No comments:
Post a Comment